Here’s the latest twist in our efforts to impregnate our Jersey cow, Emily: Starting Sunday, we will begin giving her a series of hormone shots what will culminate in artificial insemination on October 21. How can we be so sure of the date? In fact, if I took a couple of minutes to make some […]
How could I be so dumb? After our Jersey heifer Emily gave birth in late March, more experienced farmers told us that we would need to “skip a month” before breeding her again. For some reason I added that month to July, the month we bred her the year previous. That would mean waiting till […]
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It’s probably just farming myth that you can tell when goats have had sex when you see them emerge from the goat shed smoking cigarettes. But we are always looking for signs of caprine love making because baby goats for us are, in the end, the payoff for all the work we do to keep […]
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